16/02/2018

Centre for Policy Studies - This report sets out how a Royal Commission can ensure the NHS delivers the best outcomes on a sustainable financial basis over the coming decades. It outlines the remit and priorities that such a Commission should adopt, in order to address the NHS's most important problems.

12/02/2018

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) - From August 2018 new postgraduate pre-registration nursing, midwifery, allied health professional, and most new dental hygiene and dental therapy students will access loans from the Student Loans Company. This guidance explains the changes in further detail.

NHS England - This guidance, published jointly with NHS Improvement, sets out the plans for the NHS in light of the November 2017 budget announcements. It outlines how the additional funding will impact on emergency and urgent care, elective surgery and other core frontline services such as mental health and primary care. It is accompanied by revised CCG allocations for the financial year 2018/19.

Liberal Democrats - This report calls for a real terms increase in NHS funding of £4 billion over 2018/19 and a further £2.5 billion in the two years following that to bridge the short-term funding gap. It recommends a dedicated, ring-fenced tax to replace National Insurance to resolve the long-term funding issues for health and social care. Alongside this, the report also calls for the establishment of an Office for Budget Responsibility for Health and incentivising people to save more towards social care.

02/02/2018

Picker Institute - This report, written in conjunction with The King's Fund, considers the relationships between the self-reported experiences and wellbeing of NHS staff, measures of workforce pressures in the health system, and patients’ experiences of their care. It uncovers striking associations between NHS staff and patients’ experiences in hospitals and NHS trusts’ reliance on agency health care workers.

30/01/2018

Health Consumer Powerhouse - This annual report compares the performance of health systems across Europe. It finds that European health care is steadily improving with infant mortality and survival rates of heart disease, stroke and cancer all decreasing. It warns that too many countries are inefficiently funding and delivering care services and it highlights examples of best practice in different health systems.

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) - This document sets out the government’s response to Sir Robert Naylor’s review of NHS property and estates, published in March 2017. The actions outlined will drive transformation of the NHS estate and help the NHS to deliver the Five Year Forward View. They combine targeted investment with clear leadership on estates matters from a new NHS Property Board and a strategic estates planning team to provide on-the-ground support for sustainability and transformation plans.